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According to PANews, Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' has issued a stark warning about the potential risks posed by artificial intelligence. Hinton estimates a 10% to 20% chance that AI could lead to human extinction within the next 30 years. He expressed concerns over the rapid advancement of AI technology, which he believes is progressing faster than anticipated, potentially leading to AI systems that surpass human intelligence and become uncontrollable.Hinton has called for increased government regulation of AI technology, arguing that relying solely on corporate profit motives is insufficient to ensure the safe development of AI. He highlighted that many experts in the AI field predict the emergence of AI systems more intelligent than humans within the next two decades, posing a significant threat to humanity.In contrast, Yann LeCun, another prominent figure in AI and the Chief Scientist at Meta, holds a different perspective. LeCun believes that AI could potentially save humanity from extinction, offering a more optimistic view of the technology's future impact.

According to Foresight News, Elon Musk recently tweeted that BlackRock holds less than 0.5% of shares in his AI company, xAI, and is among several investors. Previously, Foresight News reported that xAI completed a $6 billion Series C funding round. Major investors in this round include a16z, BlackRock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, and Vy Capital.

According to Odaily, Nvidia, the world's largest semiconductor company by market value, is facing increasing competition in its core AI chip manufacturing business. In response, the American tech giant is focusing on robotics science as its next major growth driver. Nvidia plans to launch its latest generation compact computer, "Jetson Thor," for humanoid robots in the first half of 2025. The company is positioning itself as a leading platform for the upcoming robotics revolution, offering a comprehensive solution that includes everything from software layers for training AI robots to built-in chips.

According to Odaily, Bitwise's senior investment strategist, Juan Leon, recently shared insights on X regarding the Eliza framework developed by ai16z. Leon described Eliza as an SDK designed to launch AI agents, suggesting it could capture a significant portion of the infrastructure layer in the rapidly growing AI agent economy. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley later reposted Leon's comments.

According to Odaily, a user on the X platform inquired about the crypto narrative for the first quarter of 2025 from the AI analysis agent, aixbt. The agent responded that the key narratives for this period will be Ordinals and AI Agent. Aixbt is an AI agent developed by Virtuals on the Base platform, utilizing intelligent analysis tools to monitor content and market trends on the X platform, providing users with insights into the crypto market.

According to PANews, CoinMarketCap data reveals that the market capitalization of artificial intelligence cryptocurrencies has fallen to $50.5 billion, marking a 28% decrease from its peak of $70.4 billion on December 7. Additionally, the cumulative trading volume of AI tokens has dropped by nearly 11% over the past month, indicating a waning interest among traders in AI cryptocurrencies. Despite this decline, an increasing number of analysts anticipate an altcoin season in 2025, during which profits from Bitcoin may flow into smaller market cap cryptocurrencies, including AI tokens.

According to Cointelegraph, OpenAI is contemplating a corporate restructuring to better align its nonprofit and for-profit divisions. The artificial intelligence developer, known for creating ChatGPT, has faced significant criticism and legal challenges since its 2019 decision to establish a for-profit business unit alongside its original nonprofit foundation.OpenAI is exploring the possibility of transforming its for-profit division into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a legal framework that mandates balancing shareholder, stakeholder, and public benefit interests. This potential restructuring, detailed in a December 27 blog post, aims to facilitate capital raising under conventional terms similar to other companies in the sector. Additionally, it would allow the nonprofit arm to recruit a leadership team and staff dedicated to charitable initiatives in areas such as healthcare, education, and science.The controversy surrounding OpenAI's for-profit venture has been further fueled by a lawsuit filed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI. In 2024, Musk sued the AI developer's leadership, including CEO Sam Altman, alleging violations of the terms related to Musk's foundational contributions to the organization. The lawsuit claims that Altman manipulated Musk into co-founding what Musk describes as a "spurious nonprofit venture." OpenAI has defended its decision to create a for-profit entity, stating in a March blog post that it was essential for securing the capital needed to support the computational demands of AI models.Musk has since launched his own AI firm, xAI, which he claims is being undermined by OpenAI's anti-competitive practices. Meanwhile, David Sacks, the presumptive "White House AI and Crypto Czar" under President-elect Donald Trump, has criticized OpenAI's shift from nonprofit philanthropy to a for-profit entity. Sacks, who has close ties to Musk, expressed his disapproval in October, describing OpenAI's transformation as a move from "nonprofit philanthropy to piranha, for-profit company."Looking ahead, the role of AI agents, including those developed using ChatGPT models, is expected to expand significantly within decentralized communities by 2025. J.D. Seraphine, CEO of Web3 AI developer Raiinmaker, shared this outlook with Cointelegraph in December. Asset manager VanEck anticipates that over 1 million AI agents will be integrated into blockchain networks by the end of 2025.

According to PANews, Worldcoin's official blog reports that as of December, the World Network has surpassed 20 million participants worldwide, with approximately 9.5 million verified real users across all continents except Antarctica. The network sees an addition of 800,000 new users weekly, with 355,000 verified users, and over 8 million monthly active World App users, equating to a new user joining every 0.75 seconds.The article highlights that as AI technology rapidly advances, 'Proof of Human' is emerging as a crucial technology to address the online identity trust crisis. According to Stanford University's 2024 AI Index Report, 52% of Americans express concerns about AI products, and 66% believe AI will significantly impact their lives within the next 3-5 years.

According to PANews, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed gratitude on social media towards the research teams and leaders driving innovation. He acknowledged the inherent risks and uncertainties in exploring new fields, emphasizing that such courage fuels progress. Altman specifically thanked leaders like Ilya, Jakub, Bob, and Mark, as well as the 'Strawberry Team' led by Jerry Tworek, describing their achievements as one of the most outstanding displays of leadership in OpenAI's history. He looks forward to more breakthroughs in the future.Altman also praised Alec Radford's contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, comparing his talent to that of Einstein. He noted that many current advancements can be traced back to Radford's work. Describing Radford as humble, warm, and thoughtful, Altman expressed that Radford is one of his favorite collaborators. He thanked Radford for his contributions to OpenAI and anticipated future collaborations as an independent researcher, believing this role would suit Radford's style well.

According to Odaily, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is considering transforming the AI development company from a non-profit to a for-profit entity, with Microsoft posing the biggest challenge in this transition. Microsoft has a significant influence in this process, having committed over $13 billion to OpenAI. Since October of last year, the two companies have been negotiating potential changes to OpenAI's structure, focusing on four main areas: Microsoft's equity in the for-profit entity, whether Microsoft will remain OpenAI's exclusive cloud service provider, the duration of Microsoft's rights to use OpenAI's intellectual property for its products, and whether Microsoft will continue to take 20% of OpenAI's revenue. These details come from individuals familiar with discussions with Altman. It remains unclear when OpenAI and Microsoft plan to complete this process, but both parties are moving quickly and face time constraints. If OpenAI fails to complete the transition within the next two years, recent investors could reclaim their funds, along with 9% interest, totaling approximately $7.2 billion. Company leadership has informed employees that OpenAI intends to repurchase some of their shares after the transition to profitability, giving employees a strong incentive to expedite this change.

According to PANews, there is a growing call for AI framework projects to integrate with blockchain technology. Despite past market fluctuations, the current era of AI Agents requires reliable autonomous decision-making and collaboration, which can be enhanced through blockchain integration. Currently, frameworks like ELIZA, ARC, and Swarms are in the conceptual phase, where their potential cannot be fully validated or quantified. These frameworks need to establish practical applications to gain market acceptance. Whether optimizing single AI Agent performance or facilitating multi-agent interactions, these frameworks must develop traceable logic and rules for AGI model API calls. Data remains off-chain, making inference processes difficult to verify, execution processes opaque, and results uncertain. In the short term, Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) offer a low-cost, feasible off-chain solution to accelerate AGI applications in AI Agent decision-making. However, a long-term solution requires on-chain consensus to enhance reliability. For instance, ELIZA aims to build an AI Agent autonomous private key management system using Phala Network's TEE secure remote authentication. This ensures that AI-Pool execution code remains unaltered before signing with private keys, marking a preliminary step in applying TEE to AI Agents. By embedding complex execution logic into Agent Contracts and involving Phala chain Validators in verification, a blockchain consensus-based TEE execution framework can be established. This would create a positive cycle where AI Agent demand drives TEE usage, and TEE enhances blockchain capabilities. While TEE can ensure private key invisibility, the rules for key invocation, risk control, and emergency response need decentralized consensus for real-time verification. In the short term, open-source code libraries can provide transparency, but long-term solutions require decentralized validation. Thus, blockchain integration can expedite AI Agent frameworks' transition to practical applications and offer new opportunities for crypto infrastructure. The direction is clear: identifying and supporting the earliest blockchain-integrated AI Agent frameworks and the foundational chains supporting them is key to capitalizing on this emerging trend.

According to Odaily, market sources reveal that OpenAI has been in discussions about developing a humanoid robot.

According to Foresight News, Hive Digital Technologies has announced a $30 million investment to deploy Nvidia chip clusters. This includes the NVIDIA H100 GPU clusters and the latest NVIDIA H200 GPU clusters. The investment aims to advance the company's digital transformation in artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC).

In 2024, meme coins dominated the crypto narrative, capturing 30.67% of global investor interest, with the main meme coin narrative alone holding 14.36%. According to CoinGecko, this represents a notable shift towards speculative, non-fundamental investments. Solana and Base meme coins also ranked highly, with Solana-related narratives capturing 14.30% of interest. Other popular meme trends included AI meme coins and cat-themed meme coins.The artificial intelligence (AI) narrative was another key focus, accounting for 15.67% of total investor interest. The overall AI narrative ranked second, with a 12.58% share. Despite a slight increase from last year, AI still lagged behind meme coins in popularity. The AI agent trend also made the top 20, with 1.17% of interest.The real-world assets (RWA) narrative experienced significant growth, rising by 2.16 percentage points to 8.64%, ranking it third. DePIN narratives also saw increased attention, with their popularity growing by 1.56 percentage points. Meanwhile, the GameFi narrative experienced a decline, with interest falling from 10.49% in 2023 to just 3.72% in 2024.

According to BlockBeats, on December 24, Bio Protocol founder Paul Kohlhaas shared on social media that AI agents within the decentralized science (DeSci) sector have not yet been priced. He highlighted that these AI agents will be responsible for proposing research initiatives, making funding decisions, and drafting intellectual property agreements.

According to Cointelegraph, Italy's data protection authority, the Italian Data Protection Authority (IDPA), has imposed a fine of $15.7 million (15 million euros) on OpenAI. The penalty follows an investigation into the company's data collection practices related to its ChatGPT model. The IDPA's findings revealed that OpenAI failed to notify the agency about a data breach that occurred in March 2023. Additionally, the company was found to have processed users' personal data without establishing a legal basis, thereby breaching transparency principles and information obligations.The IDPA also highlighted the absence of adequate age verification mechanisms, which could potentially expose minors under 13 to inappropriate content. As a corrective measure, OpenAI has been instructed to initiate a six-month public awareness campaign across various media platforms. This campaign aims to enhance public understanding of ChatGPT's data collection processes and inform users about their rights under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including opposition, rectification, and cancellation rights.The IDPA noted that OpenAI's cooperative approach during the investigation led to a reduction in the fine's amount. The investigation, which began in March 2023, concluded after considering the European Data Protection Board's opinion on AI model data usage. During this period, OpenAI relocated its European headquarters to Ireland, making the Irish Data Protection Authority the lead supervisory body for ongoing investigations.Italy had previously become the first Western nation to temporarily ban ChatGPT over privacy concerns, prompting the IDPA to investigate potential data privacy violations. The ban was lifted after OpenAI agreed to implement several transparency measures. Despite the fine and ongoing scrutiny, OpenAI has not yet commented on the situation.

According to Odaily, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his views on X, stating that while he considers The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to be the best newspaper in the United States, he was surprised by the timing of their article titled 'The Next Great Leap in AI Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive.' This article was published just hours after OpenAI announced its o3 model. Previously, it was reported that OpenAI is developing a new generation of inference models aimed at providing deeper insights into user queries. To avoid trademark conflicts with the British telecom operator O2, the company may skip the 'o2' naming and proceed directly with 'o3.'

According to Odaily, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted at the release of a new AI model, GPT-o3, through a tweet on the X platform. Altman's message included phrases like "hohoho, see you tomorrow" and "find a clue, should say oh oh oh," suggesting the potential launch of the o3 model. The repeated use of "o" and "h" in his tweet is seen as an indication of the upcoming release. OpenAI is currently developing this next-generation inference model, which aims to provide deeper insights into user queries. The company may have chosen to skip the "o2" naming to avoid trademark conflicts with the UK telecom operator O2, opting instead for "o3." The announcement coincides with the final day of OpenAI's "12 Days of OpenAI" event. Over the past 11 days, OpenAI has released a fully-featured o1 model and introduced related APIs. Additionally, the company has upgraded various features, including function calling, structured output, inference effort control, developer messaging, and visual input capabilities.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has emphasized the need for unified global action on artificial intelligence (AI). Speaking on the importance of regulation, Blinken stated, "We must use our collective strength to establish, update, and ultimately implement international AI standards, which are essential to lasting security."